American Jewish Year Book 2014

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Forum on the Pew Survey, A Portrait of Jewish Americans

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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3. Forum on the Pew Survey, A Portrait of Jewish Americans

   1. Are You “Pewish”? Multiple Assessments of the Landmark Pew Survey

      • Arnold Dashefsky, Ira Sheskin

      Pages 3-8

   2. Executive Summary

      • Pew Research Center

      Pages 9-22

   3. Rhetoric About the Diverse Jewish Community

      • Sarah Bunin Benor

      Pages 23-26

   4. The Shrinking Jewish Middle

      • Steven M. Cohen

      Pages 27-31

   5. End of Jewish/Non-Jewish Dichotomy? Evidence from the 2013 Pew Survey

      • Sergio DellaPergola

      Pages 33-39

   6. The 2013 Pew Report Through a Gender Lens

      • Harriet Hartman

      Pages 41-45

   7. The Americanness of American Jews

      • Samuel Heilman

      Pages 47-49

   8. Assimilation Anxieties and the Case of American Jews

      • Bethamie Horowitz

      Pages 51-55

   9. A Policy of Surveys

      • Ari Y. Kelman

      Pages 57-59

   10. It’s the Best of Times: It’s the Worst of Times

       • Barry A. Kosmin

       Pages 61-65

   11. Jews Who Count: Putting Pew in Historical Perspective

       • Deborah Dash Moore

       Pages 67-70

   12. Pew’s Portrait of American Jewry: A Reassessment of the Assimilation Narrative

       • Leonard Saxe, Theodore Sasson, Janet Krasner Aronson

       Pages 71-81

   13. Response: Pew Research Center

       • Alan Cooperman, Gregory A. Smith

       Pages 83-87

4. Review Articles

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Gender in American Jewish Life

      • Sylvia Barack Fishman

      Pages 91-131

   3. National Affairs: January 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014

      • Ethan Felson

      Pages 133-164

   4. Jewish Communal Affairs: April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014

      • Lawrence Grossman

      Pages 165-213

   5. Jewish Population in the United States, 2014

      • Ira Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky

      Pages 215-283

This book, in its 114th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish communities, examining the recently completed Pew Report (A Portrait of Jewish American), gender in American Jewish life, national and Jewish communal affairs and the US and world Jewish population. It also acts as an important resource with lists of Jewish Institutions, Jewish periodicals and academic resources as well as Jewish honorees, obituaries and major recent events. It should prove useful to social scientists and historians of the American Jewish community, Jewish communal workers and the press, among others.

• American Jewish Academic Resources
• American Jewish Communal Affairs
• American Jewish Institutions and Press
• American Jewish National Affairs
• American Jewish Population
• American Jewry

• Sociology and Judaic Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

  Arnold Dashefsky

• Department of Geography, Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA

  Ira Sheskin

Arnold Dashefsky, Ph.D. served as the inaugural holder of the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, where he is now emeritus. He is the co-author, editor or co-editor of nine books, including Americans Abroad, Charitable Choices, Ethnic Identification Among American Jews, among others, as well as numerous scholarly articles. A former Associate Head of the Sociology Department, he was the founding Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, located in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, and is the Director Emeritus and Senior Academic Consultant of the Berman Jewish DataBank.

Ira M. Sheskin, Ph.D. is the Director of the Jewish Demography Project of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami and Professor and Chair of Geography at the same institution. He has completed 43 major Jewish community studies for Jewish Federations throughout the country and was a member of the National Technical Advisory Committee of the Jewish Federations of North America from 1988 to 2003 which completed both the 1990 and 2000-01 National Jewish Population Surveys. His publications include books entitled Survey Research for Geographers, How Jewish Communities Differ and Comparisons of Jewish Communities: A Compendium of Tables and Bar Charts.

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